Long time acomin'~

We received word that our dossier will be submitted on February 15th!!! And hopefully 4-6 weeks after that we will have our appointment date set...which will be, by non scientific guesstimation, late march to mid april will be when we go to the good old Ukraine!

Since my last blog, we have also decided to take our now 6 year old with us as well as our soon to be 4 year old! They are both very excited about the trip to go get their sister, see her "house", and meet her friends. It would have been nice to have her home in February...but traveling with little ones, it will be much better to go when the weather is nice and we can enjoy the zoo, amusement park, and Deribasovskaya Street...not to mention the Potemkin Stairs. With any luck, we will be there for the (inserted from site) Every April 1, about half a million visitors descend on the city for Humorina - an annual festival of roguery to mark the beginning of spring. The celebration is marked by comedy performances, parades and various large-scale street shenanigans

I promise to keep up better on the blog...as things are actually making progress!!!